Auction Ends: Oct 10, 2017 08:00 PM EDT
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Wachusett Mountain - (2) lift tickets
- Item Number
- 110
- Estimated Value
- 138 USD
- Sold
- 90 USD to dra4c0fdd
- Number of Bids
- 11 - Bid History
Item Description
Mountain Facts
- Summit Elevation - 2,006 Feet
- Vertical Drop - 1,000 Feet
- Trails - 26
- Skiable Acres - 110
- 30% Novice, 40% Intermediate, 30% Advanced
- The longest trail is 1 1/2 miles on "Balance Rock"
- Wide variety of terrain that exists for skiers of all abilities
- Lifts - 8
- Uphill capacity of more than 9,200 skiers per hour, including 3 high speed quad chair lifts (the only 3 in Massachusetts)
- Polar Express: high-speed quad chair > 4,500 Feet
- Minuteman Express: high-speed quad chair > 3,700 Feet
- Monadnock Express: high-speed quad chair > 2,500 Feet
- Vickery Bowl: triple chair >1,500 Feet
- Ollie's: carpet > 300 Feet
- Easy Rider: carpet > 500 Feet
- Polar Playground: carpet > 200 Feet (open for Polar Kids participants only)
- Pony Lift > 500 Feet
- Uphill capacity of more than 9,200 skiers per hour, including 3 high speed quad chair lifts (the only 3 in Massachusetts)
- Season - Traditionally, skiing from the day after Thanksgiving until early April
- Snowmaking
- 100% coverage on all 108 acres
- Utlilize innovative HKD tower guns
- 100 million gallons of water converted into machine made snow each season, equaling an average of 3 feet of snow covering all trails.
- Lease water from the city of Fitchburg-owned Wachusett Lake
- Grooming - A fleet of 6 snow grooming vehicles manicure the trails two times each day
History Facts
- Name - "Wachusett" is the Algonquin Indian word for "The Great Hill"
- First Trails - The first skiing trails on Wachusett Mountain were cut by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the late 1930's (Pine Trail 1934; Balance Rock Trail 1937)
- First Lifts
- Oxbow T-bar - 1960
- West T-bar - 1962 (the longest T-bar in New England at 3,800)
- Nature/Geology
- Highest mountain in Massachusetts east of the Connecticut River
- Largest "Monadnock" (Indian word for mountain that stands alone) east of the Berkshires
- Home to the only known Old Growth Forest east of the Connecticut River (Some of the trees here are over 350 years old!)
- Panoramic 360-degree views from the summit; including view of Boston Skyline to the east.
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